The letter by 60 Valley executives to Arizona Senate President Russell Pearce, demanding an end to the over-the-top focus on illegal immigration, is a triumph of pragmatism over racial prejudice and mean-spirited arrogance. How much pummeling can Arizona’s reputation take?
My only question is: What took so long? Half of Rome burnt down while our community leaders fiddled like a string section. Mozart might appreciate it, but those who lost the ability to feed their families from the economic consequences certainly do not.
Pearce is the quintessential example of an individual with an extremist agenda, inciting critically thoughtless, knee-jerk reactions and bringing out the worst in all of us. When, oh when, will we learn?
D.J. Diebold
Scottsdale/Mesa
Dale Whiting posted at 7:00 pm on Fri, Mar 25, 2011.
Leon,
RINO, Any registered Republican who thinks like Barry Goldwater and Bill Buckley, Jr. Did Karl Rove invent this appreviation?
Patriotism. Derived from the word "Patriot," an agressive offensive missle designed to shoot down other missles, or a Neo-con blinded by thought, or an act designed to deprive some of their constitutional rights during periods of intense fear mongering over terrorism.
Invasion. A higly useful term to help promote fear mongering.
But at least you addressed the topic!
VofReason,
Nice analogy but the truth is nowhere there in to be found.
VofReason posted at 1:13 pm on Thu, Mar 24, 2011.
I think what DJ is saying is that Legislators should fold like a cheap suit when Business leaders ask them to- despite what the people of the state have elected them to do. Don't worry though, like most liberal nuts, they will turn their opinion around when the "right" candidate is in power. It is the perfect solcialism ploy, you need illegals to get cheap Big Macs and the Hospitals have to shoulder the cost of their healthcare to make it work. $1.00 Big Macs and cheaper Hotel stays on one hand, $1000s of dollars in unpaid emergency room visits on the other. If you don't like it your a racist
Leon Ceniceros posted at 8:46 am on Thu, Mar 24, 2011.
The writer calls the defection of the 3 Republican in Name Only (R.I.N.O.s) Senators a...."triumph of pragmatism".
Could some one please tell me when ....PRAGMATISM....replaced .....PATRIOTISM ???
Do these ...."60 Valley executives"...hold....AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP.....so .....CHEAPLY ???.
Do these ...."60 Valley executives"...put their.....COMPANY and PERSONAL PROFITS....above.....LOVE OF AMERICA ???
Have Arizona's Business Leaders forgotten that America has over.....200,000 AMERICAN MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN IN HARM'S WAY DEFENDING IRAQI AND AFGHANISTAN'S...BORDERS...AGAINST INVASION BY TERRORISTS ???
Do these ..."60 Valley executives"....watch the News and... NOT SEE... the....FLAG DRAPED COFFINS OF AMERICAN WARRIORS WHO HAVE PAID THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE .....or our .....WOUNDED WARRIORS...who were defending IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN citizens ???
These American Heroes are in HARM'S WAY...protecting the BORDERS of a FOREIGN NATION against INVASION...............yet these ....."60 Valley executives"....WOULD LET MEXICAN AND LATIN AMERICAN AND WHO KNOWS WHAT NATIONALITY..........ILLEGAL ALIENS........INVADE....ARIZONA.
SHAME ON THEM......THEY MAY BE BUSINESS "LEADERS" BUT THEY AREN'T ACTING LIKE....."AMERICANS"....WHEN THEY..........OPEN ARIZONA'S BORDER TO INVASION....BY NOT SUPPORTING........ANTI-ILLEGAL ALIEN....LEGISLATION.
concernedcitizen posted at 6:38 pm on Wed, Mar 23, 2011.
Leon, you are right in your argument, however I feel Pearce is taking it too far, and it sounds like he is trying to "come up with" supposed "evidence" to further push his agenda. If that is true then he is being dishonest, and it doesn't matter what side you are on in an argument, if you are being dishonest to "prove" your point you shouldn't be in public office.
Pearce appears to be following the wake of the SB 1070 boat as long as he can because the boat is going straight and the wake is wide.
However, if you really look at what is happening, you can see his real intentions. Though it is true that illegal aliens suck millions of dollars from the system, how often have you heard Pearce talk about this as a reason to pass SB1070 and these other laws? That is the main reason people are upset. My own mother is 61 and can't get health insurance because she can't afford it, yet how many illegals are able to get adequate health coverage (or at the least show up to the emergency rooms and you and I foot the bill)? People are tired of our hard-earned tax dollars going to special interests as well as going to illegal aliens.
Is Pearce really focused on our economy in Arizona? If so, why did the Senate pass so many bills that were not related to the economy, before actually working on the budget? Doesn't that seem hypocritical? He is the senate president, he has at least some say on those types of things doesn't he? Yet he chooses to focus on his "pet projects"-it is so obvious it drips of obviousness!
Being a political figure is like playing a piano-you can either be like Pearce and plunk one key over and over until it finally goes out of tune, or you can play all of the notes (in the correct order) in order to play a tune that is satisfying to everything, and that is done in the proper order. But people are too loyal to someone who now has a ton of power in this state and people are blind to his methods.
What would Jesus do? He wouldn't grant amnesty, he said "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's", which means he believes in following the law of the land. He also wouldn't act in a condescending way to a certain group of people, no matter how much wrong they did. He hung out with "sinners" in order to help them, not because he agreed with their choices.
Leon Ceniceros posted at 9:03 am on Wed, Mar 23, 2011.
Wake up....the November 2nd, 20101 National Election had politicians all across American winning election after election after election on the same Anti-Illegal Alien Amnesty, Protect our Borders, deny unearned Social Security and Welfare benefits for citizens of another country, hire Americans not citizens of other countries....POLITICAL PLATFORMS.
Since the Election...local communities, towns, cities, counties and States all across American have embraced and passed.......SB1070....Laws.
All across America....State Legislatures are passing ..."birthright" laws and demanding a Congressional Amendment denying ...."anchor babies"...outright American citizenship.
Using your "religion" to push your argument that Our Lord would somehow embrass citizens from other countries stealing the goods of another is absurd. Did Moses open his arms to the Caananites..........heck no......he ...'SMOTE THE HECK OUT OF THEM"............so spare us the....W.W.J.C.H.D. ARGUMENT...He would have done the same thing that Speaker Russell Pearce is doing.........PROTECTING HIS FLOCK.
Dale Whiting posted at 8:10 am on Wed, Mar 23, 2011.
D.J.
Process this thought. I share membership with Pearce in a rather well organized religion. And this past week's lesson, which I taught in my congregation, was on Charity, the Pure Love of Christ! I just cannot see in what Pearce is doing anything close to being charitable or loving of those who have less than us. A former devotee to that faith, the political cartoonist Steve Benson who also graduated from BYU, did a cartoon last fall in response to that Quran burning initiative out of Florida. His caption was "What would Jesus do? We all need to ask ourselves that question much more.